Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...notable escape clause. "Time and time and time again I have said that I am not a candidate. If you ask about a draft and things of that sort-these things I have not yet contemplated." After a call on Stevenson and Wisconsin's Democratic Governor Gaylord Nelson at the executive mansion, Publisher William Evjue of the Madison Capital Times wrote an endorsement of a Stevenson-Kennedy ticket. And when a reporter told Stevenson that a Wisconsin poll gave him 30% of the Democratic vote without even trying, Stevenson listened in rapt attention. Momentarily dropping his faraway look...
...Nixon's prospects in the state's early-bird primary election-the nation's first-next March, they are likely to ask one another, a little worriedly, "How strong is this Dartmouth thing?" The "Dartmouth thing" is the glittering fact that New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller. Dick Nixon's only serious rival for the Republican presidential nomination, is an alumnus of Dartmouth College, which is to New Hampshire what Harvard is to Massachusetts, only more...
Fortunately for the home team, junior tackle Bob Pillsbury will return to action after a week's layoff with a bad leg. He, along with right tackle Eric Nelson, could do much to insure a victory. Though neither has the size of last years' stalwarts, Bob Shaunessey and Pete Briggs, each has progressed rapidly this season and give the Crimson one of the toughest pairs of tackles in the league...
Trailing at a distance were Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts and Governor Nelson Rockefeller of New York. Kennedy scored 43 votes and Rockefeller...
Final figures showed Nixon leading Nelson A. Rockefeller, Governor of New York, by a 615-139 margin. Nixon was the favorite among Republicans with 437 first-choice votes to 87 for Rockefeller, and he led the New York governor, 139-38, among independent voters...